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entertaining ; show a greater degree of cunning and activity ; 

 three marks by which monkeys of the new continent are 

 distinguished from those of the old ; M. Buffon makes but 

 nine species of monkeys belonging to the ancient continent, 

 and eleven to the new ; their names, with their descriptions : 

 the red African, the patas, second sort of the ancient conti- 

 nent: the white nose or moustoc, of the ancient continent, 

 most beautiful ; its description ; the green of St Jago, also 

 called callatrix, is of the ancient continent ; its description ; 

 some of the kind eat their own tail, and seem to feel no 

 pain ; the Bramins have hospitals for those that happen to 

 be sick, or disabled ; those monkeys of the new continent 

 with muscular holding tails, are called sapajous, and those 

 with feeble useless tails, are called sagoins ; the fox-tailed 

 monkey ; makies, the last of the kind ; their description, iii. 

 305. 



Monkey-bezoar, a factitious concrete, ii. 285. See Bczoar. 



Monoculus, the arborescent water-flea, its description ; are of 

 a blood-red colour, and sometimes in such multitudes on 

 standing waters, as to make them appear all over red, 

 whence the water has been thought turned into blood ; its 

 branching arms, and the motion made with them in the 

 water, deserve great attention, v. 4-23. 



Monsoons, so called from a famous pilot of that name, who 

 first used them in navigation with success ; in the ocean 

 between Africa and India, those of the east winds begin in 

 January, and end at the commencement of June; in August 

 or September the contrary takes place, and the west winds 

 blow for three or four months, i. 295. Monsoons prevail 

 at different seasons throughout the Indies, 306. 



Monstrous productions, father Malebranche's ingenious theory 

 of; remarkable instance related by him, ii. 99. 



Moose-deer, name in America for the elk ; its description, ii. 

 341. 



Mormyrus, description of this fish, v. 126. 



Moron, a kind of salamander, thought venomous, v. 309. 



Morse, an animal of the seal kind, might be ranked among 

 fishes, ii. 154% Generally frequents the same places where 

 seals reside; different from the rest in a very particular 

 formation of the teeth; resembles a seal, except that it is 

 much larger; are rarely found but in the frozen regions 

 near the Pole ; formerly more numerous than at present ; 

 the Greenlanders destroyed them mors before those seas 

 were visited by European ships upon the whale fishery, 

 than now ; its teeth generally from two to three feet long ; 

 the ivory more esteemed than that of the elephant ; the 

 fishers have formerly killed three or four hundred morses at 

 once ; their bones are still lying in prodigious quantities 

 along those shores they chiefly frequented, iii. 271. 



